coming up on this programme. the coppa italia kings, juventus are through to this year's final after a 2—0 aggregate win over ata la nta. a return to the olympic fold for russia, the ioc lifts its suspension for doping. and it was an impressive opening day for hosts the netherlands at the track cycling world championships. hello, and welcome to the programme, where we start with the news that holders juventus are through to the final of the coppa italia after a 2—0 aggregate win over atalanta. the seocnd leg played in the turin snow finished 1—0 with just a miralem pjanic penalty 15 minutes from the end proving the difference in the match, but it was comfortable win, which takes massimilliano allegri's side through to a fourth successive appearance in the final of this competition having won the last three. and they'll face milan who won 5—4 on penalties against last year's beaten finalists lazio after both legs and extra time of the second leg finished goalless.

alessio romagnoli scored the winner after luiz felipe ramos marchi failed to convert his spot kick for lazio. tottenham are through to the fa cup quarterfinals after a crushing 6—1win over rochdale at wembley stadium in theirfifth round replay. snow fell steadily during the match that saw var used to deny spurs an early goal to erik lamela. but with the match level at 1—1, four goals in under 20 minutes, including a 12 minute hat—trick for fernando llorente, changed the course of the contest and sets up a last eight tie away to fellow premier league side swansea city. we are going to have a very tough game against swansea. step—by—step, we need to go to the semifinals. it will be a tough game against swansea away from home. and i think we're going to have very competitive time. just three days after the world's most expensive player

neymar broke his foot, the same two teams met in the coupe de france. paris saint germain, who've won the past three of these titles, beat marseille 3—0 to reach the semi finals of this year's competition. with neymar out for an extended period following sunday's win in le classique, angel di maria scored twice and edinson cavani also got on the scoresheet for ps6 at parc des princes, while in the early match, lassana doucoure scored for chambly who are second bottom of the third tier as they shocked top flight strasbourg to reach the last four joining fellow third tier side les herbiers who won on tuesday. in spain's primera division, antoine griezmann scored all four goals for second placed atletico madrid in their derby match against leganes. the french international scored two in each half to close the gap on leaders barcelona to four points with the catalans playing on thursday. elsewhere, valencia missed the chance to reclaim third place after a 1—1 draw at athletic bilbao and sevilla beat bottom club malaga to climb up to fifth as villarreal were beaten at eibar. russia's olympic membership

has been restored by the international olympic committee following its suspension from pyeongchang 2018. russia was banned from february's games by the ioc over state—sponsored doping but despite this, 168 russians competed as neutrals in south korea, and two of them failed drugs tests. our sports news correspondent richard conway explains why this decision was made. the ioc had clearly signposted that they were prepared to reinstate russia's olympic membership. but he has not been an easy path. we know 168 russian athletes went as neutrals to pyeongchang, that is how they were built. they were there because the russian olympic committee had been suspended, and that was all down to what happened in the previous winter olympics in sochi in 2014. investigations discovered that russia had engaged in state—sponsored doping, a

systematic method of cheating that involved the secret service switching out you're in samples in their laboratory. thomas park, the ioc president, called this an unprecedented attack on the integrity of the olympic games. what they wanted to do, the ioc, was to punish russia this way, invite 168 clea n punish russia this way, invite 168 clean athletes that have proven they we re clean athletes that have proven they were clean in the eyes of the ioc, but two of those athletes failed drug —— drug tests during the pyeongchang games. so they were not automatically reinstated in time for the closing ceremony as had been planned, but as long as no further violations were uncovered, that russia would be reinstated. that is what has happened. as the news of russia's reinstatement broke, president vladimir putin was busy presenting state awards to medalists. russian athletes won 17 medals in pyeongchang including golds in figure skating and ice hockey. after knocking out top seed grigor dimitrov in the first round, tunisian wild card malekjaziri continued his dream run

at the dubai tennis championships with a second round win over dutchman robin haase on wednesday. ranked 117th in the world he was a straight sets 7—6, 7—6 winner over the world number 43, taking just under two hours and the 34 year old's next opponent will be greece's stefanos tsit—sipas, who eliminated sixth seed philipp kohlschreiber. second seed lucas pouille defeated russian karen khachanov in three sets to reach the quarterfinals. it was a repeat of the recent open 13 provence final in marseille which was won by khachanov but three days later it was pouille who emerged victorious this time, winning 6—4, 3—6, 6—3 and he'll next play japan's yuichi sugita. roberto bautista agut was made to work hard in a difficult early match with frenchman pierre—hugues herbert. opening on centre court, the spaniard finally won 6—4, 6—7, 6—1 as he raced into the lead but was pegged back. in the end, the third seed won in two hours and 22 minutes and will go on to face croatia's borna coric

in the last eight. the uci track cycling world championships opened on wednesday in the netherlands, with three rainbowjerseys awarded. these are the first track world championships in the netherlands since they were previously held at the same venue in apeldoorn in 2011. and it was an impressive opening day for the hosts as they won two world titles plus a silver medal. netherland's kirsten wild took the first title awarded, in the women's scratch race, chasing down an attack by ireland's lydia gurley and then holding off the rest of the field. in the team sprint competitions, the dutch men's squad went up against olympic champions great britain, and it was the dutch who prevailed, winning by half a second. france beat the russian federation for bronze. we briefly saw kimi raikkonen and fernando alonso taking to the track in barcelona for the third day of pre—season formula one testing, but it was more "snowman" than "iceman" on wednesday. i think it would be nice to have

competition. but of course, on the other hand, we would prefer to be miles away from everyone. because all we want to do is win, but it is true that when there is challenge and hard battles, it makes you appreciate the results more. so, for us appreciate the results more. so, for us to keep developing everyone, it would i better to